May 17, 2014

For four years, I've been following the quasi-fabulous career of the Hispanic Obama, Julian Castro, who gets paid about $3k or $4k per year to be the ceremonial "mayor" of San Antonio while some white lady gets paid 100 times ($375,000) Hizzoner's stipend to be the actual city manager.

President Obama intends to choose Mayor Julián Castro of San Antonio as the secretary of housing and urban development, replacing Shaun Donovan, who would move to head the Office of Management and Budget, according to Democrats informed about the plans.

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"Castro has credited affirmative action for his admission into Stanford, telling The New York Times, "Joaquín and I got into Stanford because of affirmative action. I scored 1,210 on my SATs" (WIKIPEDIA).

You have to wonder what price America is paying for putting non-Whites as totems and leaders ahead of guys like say, Ike.

It used to be that American Presidents, were more often than not smart guys who knew things, how people worked, and had the same interests as most of the country.

Can anyone say that a Julian Castro, Barack Obama, or Oprah, would have the same interests as most of the population? Would be aligned with their interests? Would be smart and know how people work?

Affirmative Action merely promotes guys and gals who demand White groveling and obeisance and react badly when that does not happen. See Obama vs. Putin. Part of Obama's pique and rage is a White guy who does not bow down to him and grovel. Hilarious one one level, bad for people who live in this place on another. I would not call it a country though.

The media consensus is that Obama and the Democrats are worried about the relative long term, because they're worried about their precious "juggernaut" of the Hispanic vote because Republicans have Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Brian Sandoval, Susana Martinez as potential Presidential material. So it's time to shove Julian Castro up the pipeline really quick so the Democrats have a card to play should the Republicans nominate a Hispanic in the near future. Cabinet Secretary is one of the five sources for future Presidents (other four are Governor, Senate, 5-Star General, Vice-President) going back a long way.

I think the Democrats are worried for nothing. White Democrat will trounce and wipe the floor with Hispanic Republican in a Presidential vote, always. Hillary beats Marco Rubio by more than 2-1 among Hispanics in a hypo matchup.

I actually investigate the Cisneros idea, along with another Chicano celebrity, but it appeared to be a dead end. I found a picture of Castro with his putative father, an obscure schoolteacher, and they looked quite a bit alike

It's not about Castro. It's not about the Democrats. In both parties it's about the globalist corporate-finance donor class funding, pushing NAM candidates to become elected donor class puppets to disempower White Americans.

As many presidents have been made five star generals after being president (Washington) as have been five star generals prior to being president. And the last cabinet member was way back to Herbert Hoover so let's not get carried away.

I think the Democrats are worried for nothing. White Democrat will trounce and wipe the floor with Hispanic Republican in a Presidential vote, always. Hillary beats Marco Rubio by more than 2-1 among Hispanics in a hypo matchup.

Agreed and it's very debatable if the Hispanic vote is all that important on the Presidential level. They have abysmal turnout levels and their vote is only key in two swing states, FL and CO. In Florida the two largest Hispanic groups are Puerto Ricans,citizens by right and Cubans who might as well be. So I doubt immigration is much of a motivator to these groups.

Obama won in '12 in large part because of record Black turnout which proved decisive in OH, VA and FL. Oddly the Dems all but ignore the Black community.

"Castro has credited affirmative action for his admission into Stanford, telling The New York Times, "Joaquín and I got into Stanford because of affirmative action. I scored 1,210 on my SATs" (WIKIPEDIA).

1210 on the SAT. Not exactly a cutting edge intellect.

Yeah, but he's forthcoming and, apparently, in touch with reality. I like that answer quite a bit.

Whatever Mexicans are telling pollsters now, they *will* vote for Cruz or Rubio if either heads the ticket in 2016. If either wins, it will be a gamechanger, pitting Mexicans against blacks for a decade or more. But, as usual, it won't be the gamechanger that conservatives want because of amnesty.

Whiskey said..."You have to wonder what price America is paying for putting non-Whites as totems and leaders ahead of guys like say, Ike."

I wonder wht price we've paid or all the times someone is given a job be ause of affirmative action over better qualified people. Not only do they most likely not perform as well at their job as other candidate's old have, but their poor performance must have a trivkle-down effect of hurting the moral of their co-workers and subordinates.

There was incredible pressure on US oligarchs to make sure Obama was reelected since it would have been a huge embarrassment (and kinda raciss) to have the first (half) black President be a one termer.

Concerning Julián Castro and his twin brother Jöäquïn, we could have our first kinda sorta four-term President since FDR. Because once Julián’s eight years are over, there will be huge pressure on the US not to be raciss and in order to prove this we will need to give his twin brother eight more years as well. This is why there is not much emphasis placed on Jöäquïn.

"It's not about Castro. It's not about the Democrats. In both parties it's about the globalist corporate-finance donor class funding, pushing NAM candidates to become elected donor class puppets to disempower White Americans."

Quite.

It's all about actors being cast for a role so looking good on TV and being able to speak their lines are the only criteria.

(Preferably with a blackmailable secret or two as insurance hence the hugely disproportionate amount of homosexuality.)

Even though most people-- including myself by reflex half the time-- persist in thinking that "The President" and various other formally-elected officials are in charge, they really aren't these days. That's why we get these Obamas and Castros and whoever pushed on us. Real decisions are made by a complex of NY financial executives and high government appointees with a revolving door (see Rubin, Summers, Geithner) between them. Presidential politics are just a noisy sideshow that pulls in all the rubes while the main event goes deliberately unheralded-- since the string-pullers and real-power-wielders want neither publicity nor scrutiny. Of course Obama, Castro, who-ev-er, is a dunce with a big smile. No people holding actual power expect to share any with the clown in the White House.

I do think this represents actual change from the aforementioned Eisenhower era. Back in Ike's day, the President was subject to pressure from elites and various kinds of disobedience from the entrenched bureaucracy but he did exercise real power. We're in a different phase of the Peter-Turchin-esque cycle now, more like Warren G. Harding's time than our own.

Actually, believe it or not it has the lowest poverty of the Texas major metro areas but there is high separation between whites and Hispanics there. It performs better on some stats than Travis-Austin. Its strange, the lowest you can get for 60 plus Hispanics about around 19 percent.

No, we've been indoctrinated to follow the party line, whatever it is. If the party wants Jules destroyed, and if homo-bashing is the shortest way to do it, then you'll even see people like Michael Musto snickering that Jules is a faggot. A population that swallowed "gay marriage" will swallow anything the rulers want them to swallow. WWG-B-T etc. are obedience-training.

It is not unusual for a City Manager to get paid a lot more money than the mayor. In fact there is a formal theory of municipal government that promotes this idea. I once briefly considered pursuing the 'City Manager' career path.

It's all part of the 'Good Government Movement'. The idea is that for cities of a certain size and tacitly a certain (white) citizenry you should have professional and non-political management. This is what many white suburbs look for. They think of civic problems as being amenable to technocratic solutions.

Conversely larger more diverse cities need a real charismatic leader like Joe Alioto or Ralm Emanuel. These are the kind of public figures who stand out in front in public and make slippery deals in private.

Some cities are in between and have both a city manager and a mayor.

When I was in grad school we had a professional city manager address us to see if any ig us were interested in his profession. I don't recall his name - anonymity is part of the skill set.

He told the anecdote about while he was addressing a meeting of city managers he got a message that he had been fired. Everyone in the audience of city managers understood, it was part of business. He went somewhere else. City managers have no-fault firings.

That was illuminating but it was not a profession for me. I knew I couldn't handle that level of sang-froid.

I wonder if that helps in U.S. House & Senate seniority (i.e. if you are bland or outright forgettable, you might go far). It reminds me of a remark by John Derbyshire once about the Chinese premier, whoever that is now

I'd simply assumed you'd been the City Manager of Walnut Creek at some point.

Sarcasm?

Maybe you should tell your readers about being a HUD Secretary.

In municipal government the head of government housing is pretty much a license to steal. The feds routinely arrest Housing Authority administrators for all manner of corrupt practices. Being appointed to run a local Housing Authority is a political reward - no skill required.

At the federal level the HUD cabinet position is little better. Samuel Pierce for example was Reagan's black token on the cabinet. He was the one whom Reagan didn't recognize at a meeting of mayors. The media thought it was more evidence that Reagan was senile because he didn't recognize his own cabinet secretary. But what it really showed was that Reagan held HUD and its leader as a very low priority.

HUD secretary is a good place to park a not-too-bright token. The only risk is that he will get caught and land in the pokey as so many housing administrators have.

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